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High on Films is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Debopriyaa Dutta, Pramit Chatterjee, Shikhar Verma, Vassilis Kroustallis.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
2/5
The Musical (2026) Shikhar Verma The wonky execution and unsure satirical leanings never truly make [The Musical] stick the landing.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Night Nurse (2026) Shikhar Verma [Night Nurse] is a wildly uneven but inadvertently seductive thriller that cuts through broad metaphors of power dynamics, co-dependency, and caregiving. 
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
Big Girls Don't Cry (2026) Shikhar Verma Schneideman’s vision of girlhood, despite the familiarity, feels like a sensitively rendered snapshot of a teenager traversing through the uncomfortable lanes of discovering herself. 
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Tafiti: Across the Desert (2025) Shikhar Verma [Tafiti - Across the Desert] is a classic adventure with pint-sized life lessons that the kiddies would enjoy. However, their accompanying parents might find its lack of rhythms and surprises a tad tough to sit through. 
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
1/5
Tapawingo (2023) Debopriyaa Dutta A self-aware comedy it is not, as it confuses its tacked-on weirdness as a substantial replacement for artistic identity or personality.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Blackout (2025) Debopriyaa Dutta While this attempt is more than serviceable, Blackout suffers from a lack of coherent stakes and a refusal to flesh out its characters beyond its urgent premise.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
3/5
The Bad Patriots (2024) Shikhar Verma [The Bad Patriots] is a documentary that is only able to reason out why a balanced world without biases is what we need right now.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Dooba Dooba (2024) Debopriyaa Dutta Stylistic brilliance can only do so much heavy-lifting in service of a trite, predictable story, one which squanders its potential halfway through and lets go of its taut control over tension when one least expects it.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Smile... The Worst Is Yet to Come (2026) Shikhar Verma "Smile…The Worst is Yet to Come," which follows the midlife crisis of a perfectly imperfect LA-based couple, conjures up these relatable anxieties of being in your 40s and finally realizing that life is slowly slipping away from you.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
The Mannequin (2025) Shikhar Verma The rushed feeling ruins the entire enterprise and makes "The Manequin" a barely realized supernatural slasher that can only be used as a part of John Berardo’s portfolio reel to showcase his talent in scene blocking and staging.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2/5
Happy Patel: Khatarnak Jasoos (2026) Shikhar Verma The jokes aren’t laugh-out-loud-funny because there is a constant undercurrent of self-awareness that either slices the joke in half or lets it go on for a little too long for it to land in the traditional sense.
Posted Jan 19, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Stalkers (2025) Shikhar Verma "Stalkers" works intermittently because of how it weaves in the themes of obsession and the insecurities that people carry within them. 
Posted Jan 01, 2026  Edit critic review
5/5
The Best of The Best-Jazz From Detroit (2025) Debopriyaa Dutta [Daniel] Loewenthal weaves in interviews with archival footage/live performances to create a dizzying network of historical truth and moving anecdotes.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
The American Southwest (2025) Shikhar Verma [Ben Masters] laces the narrative with history to help us figure out that human selfishness will only render these natural resources dry, but it will be us who will suffer the consequences of our actions, while nature keeps growing back.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
0.5/5
The Kiss of a Vampire (2025) Shikhar Verma You need to have a special kind of talent to make the so-bad-that-its-good work, and Richard Douglas Jensen’s "The Kiss of a Vampire," with its self-serious erotic tonality and zero sense of filmmaking bite, strays so far away from it.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant (2025) Shikhar Verma As a documentation of Oliphant’s life, "A Savage Art" works as it is able to convey the artist’s need to "steer up the beast." Although it fails to have a deeper, more intricate political context of its own.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Stationed at Home (2025) Debopriyaa Dutta The lack of thematic coherence, combined with an extremely indulgent runtime, makes it an exercise in patience. There are moments of fleeting beauty to reel you in, but even these glimpses aren’t enough to nourish this nightly escapade.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Yes Repeat No (2023) Shikhar Verma "Yes, Repeat No" is definitely an experiment that is worth checking out. However, it might not serve as a clutter-breaker as it intends to be. 
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Shikhar Verma "Now You See Me: Now You Don’t" is the magic equivalent of an internet meme that has appeared on your feed for the nth time, and all you actually do is sigh and move on.
Posted Nov 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Luv Ya, Bum! (2025) Shikhar Verma "Luv Ya, Bum!" is an inspiring look at an icon who traversed with kindness on and off the field, and changed the grammar of coaching, or, as one of the Hall of Famers in the documentary points out, the grammar of teaching itself.
Posted Nov 16, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Citizen Sleuth (2023) Shikhar Verma "Citizen Slueth" [is] a layered, and dare I say, a wildly entertaining interrogation into the moral grey area between fact and fiction in true crime subculture.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
No Pictures With My Father (2025) Shikhar Verma A more structured narrative, a more sincere sit-down would have made “ No Pictures With My Father” more memorable.
Posted Nov 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Pistachio Wars (2024) Shikhar Verma Within the folds of the film, you will also find a haunting, almost chilling way in which the rich delude themselves into believing everything that they are doing is for the ‘greater good.’
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Unpacking (2022) Debopriyaa Dutta As the sincere beats of the story shine infinitely brighter than the feeble attempts to satirize and critique, Unpacking only works well as a compelling examination of female pain and trauma that is completely removed from the male gaze.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
80/100
Roads of Fire (2025) Vassilis Kroustallis Thoughtful and very straightforward in its portrayal of the immigrant experience, “Roads of Fire” investigates the life paths its subjects take as an empathetic course, leading the audience into seemingly simple decisions with harrowing consequences.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Pursued (2025) Shikhar Verma Everything in “Pursued” is peppered with tonally inconsistent, implausible, and poorly staged sequences.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Intruder (2025) Shikhar Verma You might find yourself stuck in a constant loop of a movie that is unable to really dig into its B-movie shenanigans. 
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
This Too Shall Pass (2024) Shikhar Verma "This Too Shall Pass” essentially updates John Hughes’ template for the modern era, without losing the heart of his breezy, yet somewhat existential, edge.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Unbanked (2025) Shikhar Verma Unbanked, directed by David Kuhn and Lauren Sieckmann, is a somewhat detailed and easy-to-follow look at the world of cryptocurrency, but the documentary has an often-biased and diverting narrative style that leaves a lot to be desired.
Posted Oct 22, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Luderdale (2025) Shikhar Verma [Luderdale] is a bland crime thriller that messes up its own inconsistent design by never rising above its underdeveloped material.
Posted Oct 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Odd Man Rush (2020) Shikhar Verma The performances really uplift this heartfelt but instantly forgettable coming-of-age film about the weight of pursuing a singular dream
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait" (2025) Shikhar Verma It’s surprising that the filmmaker, despite a low budget, manages to develop the central characters before throwing them into a mystery that they need to resolve or come out of.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Fallaway (2025) Shikhar Verma “Fallaway” is an occasionally affecting look at a queer experience stuck between rebellion and conformity. It's a valiant effort from debutant director Kabir McNeely that promises greater things ahead for him. 
Posted Oct 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
She Loved Blossoms More (2024) Debopriyaa Dutta ..weilds its technical mastery like a genius brushstroke, where every inch of the screen has been meticulously crafted to tell a chaotic, incoherent story about an extreme emotion.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Wildman of Shaggy Creek (2025) Shikhar Verma Jesse Edwards’ harmless coming-of-age film employs 80s throwback tropes to present a creature feature that becomes entirely listless because it is neither able to conjure up dread nor some form of mystery that would make it memorable.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Scared Shitless (2024) Debopriyaa Dutta [The film] does much more with sub-genre trademarks; while toilet-related shenanigans abound, this 76-minute flick knows how to take advantage of its brisk runtime to make the most out of its absurd premise.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Tell Me What You Want (2024) Shikhar Verma From designer clothes, gorgeous shooting locations, to hot people being hot, this erotica has it all. However, it is also corny, problematic, and derivative with its themes of power tussle falling flat on its face.
Posted Sep 30, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Uppercut (2025) Shikhar Verma For a boxing drama that is supposed to be nothing more than offering a few simplistic ‘fighting for yourself’ lessons, the overall stretch that the film takes in order to make no point whatsoever makes it frustratingly inept. 
Posted Sep 28, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
The G (2023) Shikhar Verma The slow-burn thriller might simmer for too long in its noir-inspired vibes, but Dale Dickey’s super-angry grandmom single-handedly carries it to the finish line.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
BFFs (2025) Shikhar Verma [BFFs] turns into a loud, brash culmination of predictable, elaborate pranks that feels like an assault on the senses.
Posted Sep 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/5
Xeno (2025) Debopriyaa Dutta What keeps it from being yet another copy is its willingness to dabble in cold, hard cynicism. That isn’t a drawback by any means, [as it is a world where] sweet innocence coexists with the unchecked cruelty of those who fear what they don’t understand.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
Unexpected Treasures (2025) Shikhar Verma This quirky alien adventure eventually dips its toes into a predictable and scrappy narrative that wants to be one too many things at once, resulting in a messy, forgettable film.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/5
Orchid (2025) Shikhar Verma [Orchid] is an impressive directorial debut that builds tension from the outset, although it meanders and limps towards a conclusion.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
5/5
If You Should Leave Before Me (2025) Debopriyaa Dutta Sincerity is the lifeblood of this story — even in the most juvenile and outlandish moments, you can feel the soulful core of this creative endeavor that must’ve stemmed from an unblemished urge to create something special.
Posted Sep 05, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/5
Param Sundari (2025) Shikhar Verma [This is] a story so unevenly spread across slapstick humor and cheesy meet-cutes that the only redeeming quality left is Sonu Nigam hitting a high note.
Posted Aug 29, 2025  Edit critic review
80/100
Blue Film (2025) Vassilis Kroustallis This is a film powerfully calculated to give the most challenging content under the most intimate settings.
Posted Aug 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Lilly Lives Alone (2025) Debopriyaa Dutta A technically impressive feat that flounders in its emotional contents despite having the depth to pull it off...[it is] a fragmented experience that leaves a lot to be desired.
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
3/5
Ghich Pich (2025) Shikhar Verma [Ghich Pich] is a nostalgia-dipped slice-of-life dramadey that is more about the push-and-pull for small adjustments in life than anything else
Posted Aug 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2/5
The Glassworker (2024) Shikhar Verma “The Glassworker” remains an ambitious work that does not come out feeling like a work of astounding beauty that says something.
Posted Aug 15, 2025  Edit critic review
1/5
Romancing Sydney (2025) Shikhar Verma [Romacing Sydney] is a loosely bound rom-com that is unable to follow its uneven rhythms.
Posted Aug 11, 2025  Edit critic review
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